Odinkinder

Thanks for responding Sanjiv,

Yes, I did just what you said about twenty times and it did not work. It only worked after changing my front page settings from a “static page,” to “blog.” It did work then. I discovered this quite by accident while trying another theme in my development area.

I would like to see the “Corporate Layout” page template applicable to a static page instead of generated the way it is for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) reasons. With the way the page is being generated, there is no way to add an SEO description or key words to the page, this is the kiss of death for any hopes of getting the home page to rank well in the SERPs. Unless there is a static page, there is no way for a SEO plugin to apply descriptions and keywords. Without good SEO, the “Corporate Layout” is useless for business.

I would also like an option to have static text in place of the slider. Here is why, with a static text option, you could have descriptive text about the business, and then you could use anchor text to link to internal pages on the link subject, this is good SEO practice. You also need to be able to do the same with the text in the three boxes below, having descriptions with anchor text to the subject pages.

I understand you have just launched this theme, and, it is very beautiful, I am looking forward to seeing it evolve further. If you do not mind, I would like to keep the communication here so that others can learn from our conversations.

Thank you,

T.

Good response Josh, I wish more plugin developers were on the ball like you! 🙂

I don’t know what was going on with your plugin, there were some alerts in red (I think) at the top of my admin pages bugging me to go do some settings of the plugin, so I went and selected the “Default” setting just to shut it up, perhaps that’s what checked the box? To be honest, I have no idea. From my point of view, I don’t want to see messages, or have to select “settings” I just want to activate a plugin and have it work. The thing is, not all of us are technically savvy, we are just some monkeys that type stuff up and publish it, and anything that requires us to make “settings” before we can use it will just get in the way and frustrate us poor monkeys. 🙂

I did solve the issue of imbedding the You Tube videos, it was a Pretty Photo plugin causing the issue. It has a “settings” page with some check boxes checked by “default” that basically stripped the code that would imbed the video. I guess the idea was to place the vids inside the Pretty Photo box, but it wan’t doing that, and I guess the author never checked to see if it actually worked. I would chew him a new one, but, like so many authors I have seen, he has since abandoned his plugin. Un checking the boxes for video imbedding in the plugin solved the problem.

When I first saw your plugin I thought it was brilliant, and my look at it again, but right now this monkey must type so he can get paid! 🙂 Thank you so much for following up!

T.